Friday, November 09, 2012

Spineless Bastards

House Speaker John Boehner said on Thursday that Obamacare was “the law of the
land” – apparently conceding that GOP efforts to repeal President Barack Obama’s
healthcare law have ended.

Boehner, the nation’s top elected Republican,
hinted in an interview with ABC News that Congress would not undertake efforts
to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

“The election
changes that,” Boehner responded to a question about whether Congress would
undertake repeal efforts next year. “It's pretty clear that the president was
re-elected. Obamacare is the law of the land.

“I think there are parts of
the healthcare law that are going to be very difficult to implement,” he added.
“And very expensive. And as the time when we're trying to find a way to create a
path toward a balanced budget, everything has to be on the table.”

When
asked whether GOP legislators would spend time working to repeal Obamacare,
Boehner reiterated: “There certainly may be parts of it that we believe need to
be changed. We may do that. No decisions at this point.”

But Kevin Smith,
a Boehner spokesman, sought to clarify the speaker’s remarks later on
Thursday.

"While Obamacare is the law of the land, it is costing us jobs
and threatening our health care," Smith told NBC News. "Speaker Boehner and
House Republicans remain committed to repealing the law, and he said in the
interview it would be on the table."

The Supreme Court's controversial
5-4 ruling in June – in which Chief Justice John Roberts changed his position to
side the with court’s liberal wing to uphold the law’s constitutionality –
disarmed conservatives of one of their best possible chances of defeating
Obamacare once and for all.

And, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's
loss on Tuesday meant that Republicans would not have someone in the White House
that could severely limit the scope of Obamacare.

Signed by President
Obama in March 2010, the healthcare law is considered his signature domestic
policy achievement. It requires all Americans to carry insurance – an individual
mandate – or else face a tax penalty.

With 500 provisions and at 2,700
pages, Obamacare also prevents insurance companies from denying medical coverage
to those who already are suffering from a medical condition. It also allows
parents to keep their young-adult children on their health insurance plans until
age 26.

States must notify Washington a week from this Friday whether
they will be setting up new health insurance markets, called exchanges, in which
millions of households and small businesses will shop for private coverage. The
U.S. Health and Human Services Department will run the exchanges in states that
are not ready or willing to do so.

Open enrollment for the exchange plans
is to start next Oct. 1, with coverage taking effect on Jan. 1,
2014.

More than 30 million uninsured people are expected to gain coverage
under Obamacare. About half will get private insurance through the exchanges,
with most receiving government help to pay premiums.

But the law was
immediately criticized by a variety of conservative and doctors’ groups as too
expensive and too intrusive.

During the 2012 presidential campaign,
doctors from more than 20 states urged voters to oppose candidates that backed
Obamacare. Their effort cited a study that 83 percent of doctors said they might
leave medicine because of increasing regulation and interference in the
doctor-patient relationship.

In addition, Obamacare will require
Americans to complete a new form with their federal tax return that require
taxpayers to disclose whether they have complied with Obamacare’s individual
mandate. That would begin in 2014.

At least 140 million families who will
be filing returns will have to add the new Obamacare form to their fining
process, according to Americans for Tax Reform. Six million families will end up
paying Obamacare’s individual mandate non-compliance tax penalty, the group
says.

Obamacare also contains many unwritten provisions that will affect
Americans in various ways, Nick Tate, the author of a book on the law, told
Newsmax TV in a recent exclusive interview last month.

“For example, the
law will create an independent payment advisory board that’s beyond the reach of
Congress and the White House that will make recommendations on Medicare cuts
that could lead to what critics have called ‘death panels’ that could affect
care for seniors,” Tate told Newsmax. “In addition to laying out in the book
what we know is coming, we also break out what might be coming in terms of
impacts on various people.”

The Parallel Government
Of The Entire World

All of us, every single man, woman, and child on the face of the Earth were born with the same unalienable rights; to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And, if the governments of the world can't get that through their thick skulls, then, regime change will be necessary.

Infidel Babe Of The Week
Can it be anyone else?

IBA Quote of the Week.

“In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control."

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"An Islamic regime must be serious in every field," explained Ayatollah Khomeini. "There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humour in Islam. There is no fun in Islam."

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"I want to be very, very clear, however: I understand and agree with the analysis of the problem. There is an imminent threat. It manifested itself on 9/11. It's real and grave. It is as serious a threat as Stalinism and National Socialism were. Let's not pretend it isn't."~~~~~Bono~~~~~